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The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them (Thomas Merton Quotes)
It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted task: that of creating our own lives (Thomas Merton Quotes)
The whole aim of Zen is not to make foolproof statements about experience, but to come to direct grips with reality without the mediation of logical verbalizing (Thomas Merton Quotes)
The peace produced by grace is a spiritual stability too deep for violence - it is unshakeable (Thomas Merton Quotes)
The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds (Thomas Merton Quotes)
True happiness is not found in any other reward than that of being united with God. If I seek some other reward besides God Himself, I may get my reward but I cannot be happy (Thomas Merton Quotes)
The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods (Thomas Merton Quotes)
For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be (Thomas Merton Quotes)
Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm (Thomas Merton Quotes)
People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell (Thomas Merton Quotes)
It is not possible to be intimate with more than very few, because there are only very few in the world with whom we have practically everything in common (Thomas Merton Quotes)
What every man looks for in life is his own salvation and the salvation of the men he lives with. By salvation I mean first of all the full discovery of who he himself really is (Thomas Merton Quotes)
The religious answer is not really religious if it's not fully real. Evasion is the answer of superstition (Thomas Merton Quotes)
But if we love ourselves in the wrong way, we become incapable of loving anybody else. And indeed when we love ourselves wrongly we hate ourselves; if we hate ourselves we cannot help hating others (Thomas Merton Quotes)
We have what we seek. We don't have to rush after it. It was there all the time, and if we give it time it will make itself known to us (Thomas Merton Quotes)
There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him I will find myself and if I find my true self I will find Him (Thomas Merton Quotes)
There is in every intellect a natural exigency for a true concept of God: we are born with the thirst to know and to see Him, and therefore it cannot be otherwise (Thomas Merton Quotes)
The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived (Thomas Merton Quotes)
True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us only as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques (Thomas Merton Quotes)
It is as if in creating us God asked a question, and in awakening us to contemplation He answered the question, so that the contemplative is at the same time, question and answer (Thomas Merton Quotes)
Love is free; it does not depend on the desirability of its object, but loves for love's sake (Thomas Merton Quotes)
One of the moral diseases we communicate to one another in society comes from huddling together in the pale light of an insufficient answer to a question we are afraid to ask (Thomas Merton Quotes)
I could recognize that those who thought about God had a good way of considering Him, and that those who believed in Him really believed in someone, and their faith was more than a dream (Thomas Merton Quotes)
He who is controlled by objects loses possession of his inner self: if he no longer values himself, how can he value others? If he no longer values others, he is abandoned. He has nothing left! (Thomas Merton Quotes)
For it seems to me that the first responsibility of a man of faith is to make his faith really part of his own life, not by rationalizing it but by living it (Thomas Merton Quotes)
Every moment and every event of every man's life on Earth plants something in his soul (Thomas Merton Quotes)
The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me (Thomas Merton Quotes)
The evil in the world is all of our own making, and it proceeds entirely from our ruthless, senseless, wasteful, destructive, and suicidal neglect of our own being (Thomas Merton Quotes)
In the spiritual life there is no such thing as an indifference to love or hate (Thomas Merton Quotes)
Paradoxically, I have found peace because I have always been dissatisfied. My moments of depression and despair turn out to be renewals, new beginnings. If I were once to settle down and be satisfied with the surface of life, with its divisions and its cliches, it would be time to call in the undertaker... So, then, this dissatisfaction which sometimes used to worry me and has certainly, I know, worried others, has helped me in fact to move freely and even gaily with the stream of life (Thomas Merton Quotes)